Author: Ansh Singh

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New Delhi: A leading Indian tech startup, valued at over a billion dollars, has found itself embroiled in one of the biggest controversies after allegations surfaced that it had inflated its user numbers. The company, known for its fast growth and strong investor support, now faces serious questions over how many real users actually exist on its platform. It started when an external audit team began examining the company’s dashboard, where unusual patterns popped out. Some user accounts seemed to be inactive for several years, while others bore repetitive names and similar email formats, and they were using it in…

New Delhi: Consumers across India have been feeling for many months now that their regular products, though being sold by the same brands, are shrinking. From biscuits to soaps, chips to detergents, the list of items that people buy almost every other day seems a lot lighter in weight. Now, new reports confirm that major FMCG companies have been quietly using “shrinkflation,” a method where product quantity is reduced but price remains unchanged. While shrinkflation is not illegal, it nonetheless creates a feeling of unfairness among many consumers. According to people, companies should overtly tell buyers instead of concealing the…

New Delhi: The global tech industry is going through one of its biggest job crises, as layoffs crossed one lakh employees this year. Many well-known companies are removing thousands of workers as they shift their focus towards artificial intelligence and automation. Tech giants say the world is entering a new digital phase where AI-powered tools can do jobs faster and cheaper, prompting companies to cut jobs in traditional departments like marketing, customer support, testing, design, and even engineering in favor of hiring specialists with knowledge in AI, machine learning, data engineering, and cloud systems. The job cuts started slowly last…

New Delhi: India’s startup ecosystem saw a huge burst of energy in the last week of November, as companies together raised around 1.7 billion dollars, making it one of the strongest funding weeks of the year. This sudden rise in big funding rounds has brought fresh hope at a time when many startups were facing slow growth and tight investor money. According to industry trackers, the funding wave was led by late-stage deals in sectors like fintech, ecommerce, SaaS, EV manufacturing, and deeptech. Investors, who were earlier taking a cautious approach, finally started opening their wallets after seeing improving economic…

New Delhi: Microsoft has announced the laying off of 9100 jobs in a key restructuring process to make the company more AI-centered. The announcement has come at a time when practically all tech giants are trying to shift their strength towards AI innovation. It said that in the future, technology will be strongly driven by tools that think, learn, and support users automatically. That means older roles in software support, project management, documentation, and user experience are replaced by AI-empowered systems. Microsoft invests heavily in cloud infrastructure, AI research labs, and new product lines related to automation. Teams that no…

New Delhi: Google for Startups India has introduced a new program called Prompt to Prototype, designed specially to support AI founders who have strong ideas but need guidance and tools to turn those ideas into working products. As India is becoming one of the world’s fastest-growing AI hubs, this move is expected to help hundreds of early-stage entrepreneurs. The program focuses on helping founders build prototypes quickly using Google’s AI tools, cloud services, and expert guidance. Many young founders often struggle with the first step of product development because they do not have enough technical support or proper mentorship. Google…

New Delhi: It hence came as a surprise, a proud moment for the country, when India finally overtook China in smartphone exports. That’s a big deal, since China has been leading the world in electronics manufacturing for decades. Now, it’s the turn of India to rise and prove that it, too, can be a huge global factory. This did not occur overnight. In the past few years, the Indian government had brought in a slew of production-linked incentive schemes to spur global companies into making phones in India. Big technology companies like Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi expanded their factories, hired…

New Delhi: India’s startup world, which was once celebrated for fast growth and big dreams, is now facing a serious reality check. In the last few years, IndiaIndia’s Unicorn Drama Deepens as Fake Valuation Claims Come Outsaw the rise of more than 100 unicorns, meaning startups valued at over 1 billion dollars. But now, new reports and internal investigations are raising questions about whether some of these valuations were real or simply created to attract investors. According to industry insiders, several unicorns may have shown inflated revenue numbers, created aggressive future projections, and even used clever accounting tricks to look…

New Delhi: Amazon has announced an unprecedented cut of 30000 corporate jobs that comes as a surprise to the employees all over the world. That is one of the biggest job cuts in the history of the company, revealing how forcefully the tech industry is taken by Artificial Intelligence and automation. According to sources close to the company, Amazon is trying to cut costs and make its teams leaner and more efficient. Many departments that required big staffing earlier are now using advanced AI tools that can do these tasks in minutes. Because of this, the company feels that some…